Yipin Farmer

At this time, everyone understood.

Ting Hui cursed angrily: "Bitch, bastard, heartless bastard..."

Ting Zhi had tears in her eyes, her face was as pale as paper, and her whole body was shaking like autumn leaves.Ting Shuang felt that he was very pitiful. His mother was nothing. She took away her property and ran away, and she didn't even want her child, leaving him to suffer and stare blankly. She was really innocent and pitiful.At this point, there was nothing we could do, so we had to stop Ting Hui's scolding, and persuaded: "Forget it, she doesn't want to go back to the countryside to live a hard life, so there is nothing we can do, just leave."

Yang Shi nodded and gave him an approving look.

"But, she can't take away the only money left in our family, and she doesn't even want children, it's really inhuman..." Ting Hui was about to continue scolding, but when he saw Ting Zhi's pitiful appearance, he sighed and stopped. mouthed.

Ting Ke said timidly: "A few days ago, I saw Erniang walking on the street with a middle-aged man. They looked very intimate."

"Why didn't you say it earlier, brat? It's too late." Ting Hui turned his anger towards him.

Ting Ke timidly touched his head: "This matter is related to Erniang's reputation and our family's reputation. What can I say, is she looking for someone outside? There is no evidence, and then something like that happened to our family , I dare not say more.”

Yang sighed and said: "Forget it, she is also a master who can't live a life, she is not willing to go back to the countryside with us to farm, she will leave as soon as she leaves, we will continue to live our lives, as long as she is not lazy, There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome."

Furong fled privately with money, which made the dilapidated family worse. Yang's strong and calm gave the family hope to continue.The brothers surrounded her, feeling that they had a backbone again.

"Put the things in the car, let's go on the road." After speaking, Yang stretched out his hand and took Ting Zhi's hand and walked out of the main hall.

Tingzhi's face returned to color, and she wiped her eyes and asked her to lead him out of the house.

The family of five hired three cars, one to carry people, one to carry luggage, and one to install the coffin, and left the city where they had lived for many years in a miserable state.

Ting Shuang looked back at the city gate. In modern times, he has lived in this city for many years. Now, the time-space converter sent him back to his hometown. Unfortunately, he will leave here again not long after.

It seems that he really has no connection with this city.

Because returning to the hometown with the coffin, the group walked very hard. Many inns were afraid of bad luck and were unwilling to accept it. It was as difficult as it was for mother and child.After a lot of hard work, I finally returned to my hometown.

The Meng family's hometown is in Sahua Village at the foot of Shoucang Mountain. The scenery is beautiful, quiet and serene. Hundreds of families have lived here for generations. , Farming from generation to generation, there are also a few courageous people who can't bear the poverty and leave the mountain village to find work outside, such as Meng Kejian, the father of the four Meng brothers.

There are also those who are tired from working outside and feel that the gold and silver nests are not as good as their own kennels, and finally return to their hometown.For example, Li Changfu from Sanhua Village.

There are also those who struggled outside and were full of scars and exhausted, and returned to their hometown empty-handed. This is the last safe haven.For example, the current Meng family is one of them.

There is an old big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, with its whiskers hanging down like a house. Except for a few families who live in brick houses, the houses of the villagers are all simple adobe houses.

The very few houses that can live in brick and tile houses, except for Li Changfu's house in Lizheng, Ma Yaozi, and Shenjian Zhang, are Meng's house.After Meng Kejian made his fortune, he sent money back to renovate his ancestral house, trimmed the fields, and planted trees. He asked his neighbor Zhou Yigen to take care of him and gave him a little money every year.Riches and honors do not return to their hometowns, just like traveling at night in brocade clothes. When he sent money back to renovate his ancestral house, he meant more to show off, but he never expected that it would become the last safe haven for his wife and children.

The old house has three main rooms, and several side rooms on the left and right are piled with sundries. The people in the village are simple and honest, so the function of the courtyard wall here is not to prevent thieves, but to distinguish each family's territory.There are not many houses in the Meng family's house, but the yard is not small. There is a pond in the backyard that is about one mu in size. There are jujube trees, Chinese toon, pagoda tree, elm tree, and several peach trees in the yard.

The field is not far from the house, about five acres, and the ancestral grave is on the ground, so this field is regarded as a sacrificial field.

The mother and son moved into the house.Ting Shuang walked around the courtyard, making good names, and doing field trips.

Ting Hui looked around at the place where the family would live in the future.

Although the three main houses are brick houses with a good orientation and are tall and bright, they are obviously not enough for a family of five.The walls were unpainted, with red bricks exposed, and the white paper pasted on the windows was torn, and the cold wind was blowing in.Looking up again, there is no pasted roof, but the purlins and reeds are exposed.There is no wall around the earth kang, the paint on the kang table has peeled off, revealing the original color of the wood, there is no cabinet, and there is no furniture, the whole house looks dilapidated and old.

Ting Hui exclaimed: "My God, is this a house where people live?"

"Why can't people live here? Your father lived here when he was a child, and the conditions are even worse than now." Yang scolded him, "Don't stick your arms around, go and clean the house."

Ting Hui wept and swept the floor with a broken broom, complaining, "When did I ever do this kind of work?"

"You will have more work to do in the future. You will also have to farm the land, pick up manure and carry water..."

"Oh my God..." Ting Hui screamed, "How can people live like this? I can't live anymore."

"Your father can live, why can't you live? I will beat you again." Yang reprimanded him a few words.

Ting Hui didn't dare to say anything, didn't work, and squatted on the ground by the door feeling bored.

Aunt Zhou from the next door came to visit and asked strangely, "What are you doing here, Gudui?"

Ting Hui quickly stood up and stepped in.

Aunt Zhou is the neighbor next door. Her husband planted the five acres of land for the Meng family on Tuesday. The couple are very capable and honest people, and they don’t pick and choose. My aunt gave birth to two daughters, the older one was 14 years old and the younger one was 12 years old. She was very envious of the four boys from the Meng family.

Mrs. Yang came over to chat.After working hard for many years, I finally returned home without any clothes and came back empty-handed. It is really hard to see people from my hometown.

"If I had known that you were coming back today, I would have tidied up the house in advance." Aunt Zhou sat down, saw that her face was gray and not angry, and comforted her: "Sister-in-law, don't be uncomfortable. Going back to your hometown means going home. As the saying goes Well done, I’d rather give up three taels of gold than my old folks. With the help of folks, no matter how difficult it is, I can get through.”

Yang's complexion improved slightly, and he ordered his sons to pour tea.He also said: "Yes, I still have to rely on the help of the folks."

The brothers are worried, there is tea, but how to boil water?How to light the stove?

They didn't do this.Ting Shuang knows how to boil water, but in modern times, it is convenient and simple to use a gas stove to light a fire. The stove here is an earthen stove, which is the first time he has seen it, let alone use that to light a fire to boil water.

Seeing their embarrassment, Aunt Zhou smiled: "Forget it, I won't drink tea, you take these things first."

As he said, he put the basket on the table, and there were some white flour steamed buns and some eggs inside. The brothers were a little disappointed, but Mrs. Yang knew that in the countryside, white flour could only be eaten during Chinese New Year. They treated them as honored guests, and immediately accepted and thanked them gratefully.

Aunt Zhou discussed with her again that the Zhou family had several acres of land, and they planted five acres of the Meng family. They would rent half of it every year and plan food in the soil. The girl in the family is getting older, and the dowry has not yet been settled. Zhou Yigen is a good carpenter, and he wants to work in the city. Now that the Meng family is back, they just handed over the land. His family’s own land is enough for Aunt Zhou. .

"Where can we farm?" Ting Hui called again.

Aunt Zhou looked at them very strangely: "You young men, you have hands, feet and strength, why can't you plant? Are you waiting at home with your hands crossed?"

"I'm going crazy. We used to be served at home, and we didn't have to do anything to eat well and dress well."

Yang frowned: "Forget about the past, work hard, everything will be fine."

"But we don't know how to plant?"

"I don't want to grow things that are not up to date." Yang stared at him, planning to teach him a lesson later.

Aunt Zhou chatted a few more words to say goodbye, and Mrs. Yang sent her to the gate of the courtyard, while Ting Ke and Ting Zhi brought her luggage down and put them away.

Ting Shuang had finished inspecting the yard, and was very excited when she came back: "This yard is huge, bigger than our family's garden in Kaifeng. It can raise chickens and ducks, and grow vegetables."

Yang smiled and nodded, but Ting Hui said first: "Are we the ones who dig the ground and grow vegetables?"

Ting Shuang scolded him: "Boy, aren't we digging the ground and growing vegetables, are we still playing tricks in the officialdom? You can do it? Or can I do it?"

Ting Hui didn't have anything to say if he wanted to refute.He asked again, "How do we sleep at night?"

Yang's assignment: "I live in the west room, and you guys sleep in the east room."

Ting Hui cried bitterly again: "I can't sleep with so many people crammed into one kang, I really can't sleep."

"If you can't sleep, don't sleep." Ting Ke threw him a sentence.

"You think I'm as heartless as you, and I can sleep right away."

"Then what do you think? We are all people who are used to living a good life, and you are not the only one who can't bear it..." Ting Ke said, and began to cry.

"Shut up, everyone." Yang threw a categorical sentence, and said to Tingzhi: "Zhizhi, you put your book in my room. You study in the west room at night, and you go back to the east after the second watch." Sleep in the house. Whether our family can develop again in the future depends entirely on whether you can succeed in the exam."

"Yes." Ting Zhi lowered her head and replied, her face paler.

Ting Shuang looked at him and thought he was very pitiful. He lost his father and had an inhuman mother. He was in such an embarrassing situation, and now he was under great pressure to revitalize the whole family. There are only a few hundred places per year, which is more terrifying than thousands of troops crowding a single-plank bridge. At his age, he is only a junior high school student.It's pitiful to have to suffer like this.With a college student like me, how can I put such a heavy burden on a junior high school student?

Ting Shuang said loudly: "Don't worry, mother, I will definitely work hard to make our family prosperous again."

Mrs. Yang nodded in relief, and directed them to clean up the house, and then took her sons to visit people in the village.

Meng Kejian has been away from home for more than 20 years, and many people have become strangers. Yang plans to visit Lizheng first, and then meet other people.

Lizheng Li Changfu is a rare person in the village who dared to go out of the mountain village to work outside. He earned a few money and went back to the village to provide for the elderly. After his father passed away, he took over the position of Lizheng in the village. The biggest and grandest.

He looked to be in his fifties, with a handsome face, and his eyes looked shrewd and clear, but not sharp.The mother and son were let into the main room, Mrs. Yang gave some needlework gifts, and they were sitting and gossiping. The news that the Meng family had returned to their hometown had spread throughout the village. a bunch of people.

Hearing what happened to the Meng family, the women all clicked their tongues, showing sympathy.After a while, Li Changfu's family served meals. According to the rules of the village, women and children are not allowed to sit at the table when visitors come from the house. Therefore, Li Changfu and the Meng family brothers sat at a table outside. Inside, Aunt Li accompanied Yang on the kang. Yes, the other women sat with me.

Because it is a treat for guests, we serve steamed buns made of white flour, which is the season when green leaves are not picked up. On the table, there are scrambled eggs with green onions, mixed vegetables made of bacon and tofu vermicelli, dried pickled radishes, boiled peanuts, and a pot of soup floating on it. Oil flower.

Ting Shuang doesn't pay much attention to food and clothing, and thinks that as long as the pure natural food is not polluted by pesticides and chemical fertilizers, it is delicious, and she is really hungry, so she grabs the steamed bun and eats it very deliciously, and then sips the soup, which is very refreshing.

Ting Ke and Ting Zhi were so hungry that they ate well.

Ting Hui, on the other hand, was the most greedy for enjoyment. He felt that the food was rough and difficult to swallow, and he had to eat it, so he had to reluctantly eat it.

Li Jiadani served them vegetables and soup. The mouth of the bowl was as big as a human's face.While eating, Lizheng asked them about their plans, and when he heard that they planned to settle down in the village, he nodded: "It's fine to come back, your father grew up with me too, when we walked out of the mountain village together, we swore to become human , who would have thought that they would not see the last side."

The brothers of Ting Shuang all bowed their heads sadly. After dinner, Yang and Li Zheng discussed about the burial. Li Changfu promised to find some young men to help, and Mr. Feng Shui also helped.Everything about the burial also helped Zhang Luo.

People in the village gave away a chicken, a basket of eggs, pickled vegetables, mixed noodles, or a few sorghum noodles.Mrs. Yang accepted a thank you, and told her son to remember his kindness, and he must not forget the people who helped him when he becomes prosperous in the future.

The next day, with the help of the villagers, the Meng family lowered the coffin to the ancestral grave for burial.After finishing the work, please help to eat with the mourners, simple big stewed dishes, steamed buns, a group of people snore after eating.

After the funeral, Yang fell ill and lay on the kang unable to get up.

There is no doctor in the village, and when the villagers get sick, they have to make do with local methods, or go to the nearest Changping County to find a doctor.Uncle Ma, who is more experienced in the village, often goes to the mountains to collect herbs, and he also understands the principles of medicine and general headaches. He came over to check his pulse and look at his complexion. Please ask a doctor in the county seat, your mother is very ill."